President Marcos’ recent statement about the Philippines potentially achieving upper middle-income status in 2025 is both ambitious and inspiring. His remarks at the Malacañang Vin d’Honneur signaled ...

Economic downturn, poverty and inequality and inflation are the major risks for the Philippines in 2025, according to the ...

One of the most celebrated aspects of Kuyamis Fest is the street dancing, which has grown in prestige and quality over the ...

For every 1,000 people, only 0.5 hospital beds are available on average. This needs to be tripled to 1.5 beds, the Department ...

Amid all the long-running state-funded dole-out programs for the poor, a survey conducted by pollster Social Weather Stations ...

Filipino families who consider themselves poor continued to increase in the fourth quarter of 2024, with half of them—the ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in early January that nearly 23 ...

The Makati City government’s program in social services, health care, and education have greatly improved the lives of its ...

This means that many people existed at subsistence levels where basic needs such as food, clean water and shelter were often ...

The recent Social Weather Survey (SWS) revealing that about 63 percent of Filipino families rated themselves as “poor” in December 2024 serves as a sobering reminder of the ongoing economic challenges ...

I had no advance hint of last Thursday’s Inquirer headline, “SWS: Self-Rated Poverty at 63%, highest since ’03” (Inquirer.net ...